On
Friday, March 12, The Citadel physics department will host its
8th Annual Rocket Day. Approximately 125 fifth graders from
Sullivan's Island and Belle Hall elementary schools will attend.

At
10:00 a.m in Grimsley Hall Auditorium, Colonel Joel Berlinghieri
will explain the principles which govern rocket flight, illustrating
Newton's laws of inertia, force, action, and reaction with air
tracks, vacuum cleaners, balloons, and CO2 cartridges followed
by a film about rocket propulsion and satellite motion.

Students
assisted by physics cadets will launch their model rockets from
9:00-10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon on Summerall Field.